On 2013/04/29 23:50, Ted Unangst wrote: > I would like pkg_add to scan the list of requested packages, their > recursive dependencies, and then present me with all the questions at > once.
The problem is that pkg_add doesn't know what these dependencies are until it has already started downloading each package. So whatever you do, you'll have to download things before it can ask those questions; and potentially that's a big list (especially for pkg_add -u). Additionally you'll need to download a whole load more because you'll need to fetch the start of the package, abort download to ask the question (you can't leave a stack of connections hanging, many ftp sites have strict limits) and then download again. One way around this is to put this information in a separate file, but mirroring is not atomic, we can't rely on everything being updated in-sync, so if we did this it would have to handle the situation where the file either is not present or doesn't match the associated packages. > Ideally, it would also only ask the question once. Among the ... above > I usually include git and rsync, but rsync is a dependency for git, > which means pkg_add asks me twice which flavor I want. This one's easier: for those which you know in advance, you can specify the flavour in the list, "pkg_add rsync-- git" doesn't ask questions.
